US probe darkens Glencore horizons from Africa to Americas

B.C.-based gold company Great Basin Gold is cashing up to the tune of $75 million.

Mining Weekly reports: TSX- and JSE-listed BRC DiamondCore has formed a joint venture (JV) with diversified mining group Rio Tinto to resume […]

State-owned power utility Eskom urges regulation of coal exports to ensure domestic power suppliies, but government backs off declaring coal a strategic […]

Mining Weekly reports that BHP Billiton Energy Coal South Africa (Becsa) will divest some of its currently undeveloped coal prospecting rights to […]

The Perth-based junior says drilling has shown widespread uranium and rare earth elements at its 100% owned uranium project in Botswana.

In what it says was the culmination of 8 years of work, Adamus Resources announced it has poured its first gold bar at its Nzema gold project in Ghana.

Increased sales and higher export prices were behind a likely doubling of full year profits, the South African iron ore miner said on Monday.

As expected, First Quantum's 2010 metals output suffered from the forced closure of its Frontier Mine by the DRC Government in its ongoing dispute with the Canadian miner. Canada's First Quantum Minerals (FM.TO) full-year copper production fell to

Feature article from the Wall Street Journal: Rio Tinto has prided itself on the fact that more than 80% of its assets […]